At the ripe age of 30+ years old, I realised I had never had rice pudding in my life. Which is quite strange considering some of my grandparents were quite fond of it, and my sister had had an acute rice pudding phase for a while (she even made it with basmati rice, but I think that’s because she’d just grabbed the first box of rice she’d found in the cupboard).

For most people of Christian confession, August 15th is a major holiday. In my mix-and-match family, not so much. It’s not even anyone’s name day. We still make it a family gathering around a nice lunch.

I hadn’t planned on making another ice cream so soon, but this one was a special order from (other) coconut fanatics. This time around, I chose to put a spin on my recipe with the use of fresh coconut and adding lime. It was quite nice and quite refreshing. Lire la suite →

Dear weather, It’s June 29th and I can see that, since yesterday, you are feeling poorly. Why else would it be raining so much when it’s supposed to be summer? So I decided to take care of you and made you some soup. I hope you like it. If not, that’s OK, I’ll have it. Lire la suite →